Sumatra Thread!

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I'd love to see photos of your birds! I'm going to look into joining the ASA too, the annual national show meet happens close to where I live.
 
Hi I don't have any Sumatras yet but I have some American games and all this talk about Dun color makes me want to share a picture of my trio of what I call Red Duns. The pic I have only shows the rooster and part of one hen, will try to get some better pics later, Lynn in Okla.

Too Funny, I just noticed that this pic I took today of this cock look almost like my Avatar pic which is the same cock when he was a stag three years ago, the hens are different hens, the one in my Avatar is actually the stags sister and the one in the big pic is a hen I bought from a friend. The rooster is going on 4 years old now, he has turned more dun colored the older he gets, to start with he was a light blue. Lynn in Okla.
 
Cute little blue thing peeping in the incubator this morning... Cheers. The last blue pair I hatched has actually turned out to be a pair! Super. I hope the little boy blue looks like his big tough wild game daddy.



...Who's looking excessively ugly here. xD
 
I am kinda slow now but I will get some photos and post if I can figure out how to put them on... connerhills
 
Today we finally went through and did a semi-cull. It looks like 2 of the cockerels had black on the bottoms of feet so they were sent to the cull pen. Lots of what look like large gross combs already but we wont cull on that for awhile. There were a couple single spurred cockerels from shipped in eggs. In total we have only 4 bantams left and they're all cockerels :( and in total of all the largefowl we had 4 pullets- 3 dun and 1 black. I think there are close to 20 cockerels.
Those are just the oldest batches. We have 2 batches still in the brood shed, one batch is about ready to go outside and the other batch is a couple weeks old so we might still have a chance at pullets. Then we have 3 broodies that hatched out the same clutch of eggs which looks like 6 black and a dun.
 
Today we finally went through and did a semi-cull. It looks like 2 of the cockerels had black on the bottoms of feet so they were sent to the cull pen. Lots of what look like large gross combs already but we wont cull on that for awhile. There were a couple single spurred cockerels from shipped in eggs. In total we have only 4 bantams left and they're all cockerels :( and in total of all the largefowl we had 4 pullets- 3 dun and 1 black. I think there are close to 20 cockerels.
Those are just the oldest batches. We have 2 batches still in the brood shed, one batch is about ready to go outside and the other batch is a couple weeks old so we might still have a chance at pullets. Then we have 3 broodies that hatched out the same clutch of eggs which looks like 6 black and a dun.
I still have no idea what mine are. LOL
 

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